Public Citizen sent a petition to the the FDA in support of banning Serzone, an antidepressant, approved by the FDA in 1994, which has been known to cause liver toxicity and several deaths around the world. In addition Public Citizen sent a supplement to that petition which you may read online. They state that Canada, Europe and Scandanavia had banned the drug in 2003. The article was written in 2003, but to date, Serzone is still on the market in the U.S. The FDA only made the makers of Serzone, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, place a warning of life-threatening (liver) failure on the drug. Read the rest of this entry »